• Submitted by: lena campos
• Travel and Tourism
• 07 / 14 / 2013

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Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero presented offers and the agenda for tourism development of Cuba to Brazilian travel agents, tour operators and businessmen in the city of Sao Paulo Friday.

In a meeting with 150 officials of the Brazilian tourist industry and the specialized press, Marrero made a description and showed the perspectives of tourism development in Cuba.

Marrero highlighted the possibilities to increase the trips for Brazilian tourists to the Caribbean island with the resuming of direct flights by Cuban airline Cubana de Aviacion between Havana and Sao Paulo, signed Thursday.

Marrero was accompanied by Xiomara Martinez, Cuban Tourism Vice Minister, Ramon Martinez, president of the Cuban Civil Aircraft Corporation, and the maximum representatives of Cuban hotel chains Gran Caribe, Cubanacan and Gaviota.

The Cuban Tourism Minister exchanged with the operators selling the Cuban destinations and others interested in the offers of Cuba and met officials of the Brazilian Travel Agency Association, which gathers more than 2,000 entities in the South American country.

The dialogue led to the proposal of organizing in Havana next year the Congress of Brazilian Travel Agents, which was considered by the Minister as a good time to assess the investment strategy and training of Cuban tourist product.

The delegation will travel tomorrow to Rio de Janeiro and then to Porto Alegre to talk with industry representatives.

Marrero will have a meeting in Brasilia with Brazilian Tourism Minister, Gastao Dias Vieira, who started a memorandum of understanding that will enable closer cooperation in this field between the two nations.

Similarly, the minister will be received by President of the Brazilian Institute of Tourism, Flávio Dino, who is in charge of the implementation of the National Tourism Policy in the promotion, marketing and support to marketing destinations and products in the international market.

A total of more than 2.83 million foreign tourists visited Cuba in 2012, representing a record for the country's tourism sphere.

Source Prensa Latina